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Investigators say the shoplifter ran out of the north side of Dadeland after security alerted a Miami-Dade officer working in the mall. He then jumped into the canal behind the mall at Southwest 82nd Street at 73rd Avenue.

The officer lost him and called Miami-Dade Fire Rescue divers, who pulled the suspect out of the water.

Dadeland Mall security declined to comment.

This is the second drowning this year involving a suspect on the run. In January, a man handcuffed by police in North Miami-Dade bolted and drowned in a canal after running across eight lanes of busy Biscayne Boulevard.